HC Deb 23 July 1907 vol 178 cc1329-31
MR. WEIR

To ask the President of the Local Government Board if he will state the cause of the delay in issuing the

can now state how many motor-car accidents occurred in the provinces during the years 1905 and 1906, respectively, the number of deaths resulting there from, and the number of cases of personal injury.

(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) I beg to answer this Question on behalf of my right hon. friend. I cannot give the number of personal injuries resulting from motor accidents, and no separate record is kept of the number of fatalities occuring outside London, but the following particulars of the number of deaths in England and Wales, including the Metropolitan Police district, returned by coroners' juries as having been caused by motor vehicles in the years 1905 and 1906, have been furnished me by the Registrar-General. The figures for 1906 are provisional, and subject to slight revision:—

Report of the Local Government Board; and will arrangements be made, as in other Departments, for the issue of the Report before the Vote was taken.

(Answered by Mr. John Burns.) Some of the information contained in the Report relates to the year ended 31st March, and is not received by the Local Government Board until some time after that date. It is not practicable, therefore, that the Report should be issued before the Vote for the Department is taken.